9 Best Articles on Painting
The most useful articles and videos on painting from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Painting Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on painting by Refind users in 2023.
Videos
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Painting a Selfie Girl, with Maths
Today we are painting a girl taking a selfie, with mathematics.Support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/inigoquilezThis is the link to the real-time ren...
The Long Game Part 3: Painting in the Dark
Is the western world doomed? Watch my latest essay here: https://vimeo.com/157044515 "Painting in the Dark: The Struggle for Art in A World Obsessed with…
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on painting—all under 10 minutes.
Pure CSS Oil Painting - by Diana Smith aka cyanHarlow
Shared by 191, including Oliver Raduner, Jitendra Vyas, Tim Holman, CyberCodeTwins, Chris Coyier
Old Paintings Reveal How Fruits and Vegetables Have Evolved Over the Centuries
A biologist and an art historian are studying how old-ass still life paintings can trace the evolution of modern produce.
Painting with Code
Introducing our new open source library React Sketch.app.
Artist Uses AI to Generate Realistic Faces of Subjects From World’s Most Iconic Paintings
Denis Shiryaev created a neural network art project that generated realistic faces of subjects from iconic paintings.
Art in Isolation: The Delicate Paintings of Edo Japan
“Painting Edo,” the ambitious jewel of an exhibition currently on view for no one at the Harvard Art Museum, is perhaps arguably experiencing its most historically authentic moment in the strangeness…
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on painting.
A history of the smile through art, culture and etiquette
How our toothy modern smile was invented by a confluence of French dentistry and Parisian portrait-painting in the 1780s
«The smile comes easy to human beings. The facial muscles required to smile are in fact present in the womb, ready for early deployment to anxious parents.»
Download All 36 of Jan Vermeer’s Beautifully Rare Paintings (Most in Stunning High Resolution)
Imagine the scene: you uncover a painting stored away in the closet of an elderly relative's home, coated in a blanket of dust so thick you can hardly make out anything but more dust underneath. You slide it out, begin to carefully brush it off, and find two piercing eyes peering out at you.
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